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Bayne Bacon's avatar

I do believe Jon Rappoport in a past life was a speech writer for Moses. "Fuck the Oppressors-We don't give in-no matter what" What a spot on article. I could solve the bullshit coming out of Academia tomorrow. Cut off the money. Let the ivory towered con artist's sell their rubbish to the general public and see if they buy it. I think not. From Volvo's to begging bowls in one semester. Of course people make choices. The individual makes choices. Ever heard of a group making a choice to fornicate? I made a choice to quit college. Then I made a choice to listen and learn from people like Jon Rappoport, Celia Farber,Catherine Austin Fitts, ect. One denigrates the spirit of humanity and all that's good about humans when one says "there is no free will". There is always a choice. Anyone who thinks there isn't is a worm.

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Teresa P's avatar

A piece like this is disappointing not because I disagree, but because you are directing your derision and vitriol toward a complete mischaracterization of Desmet's ideas. You've set up a straw man to fling darts at. It's clear that you haven't read his book, and I wonder if you've ever even listened to him interviewed.

Desmet is not saying that people are not responsible for their own behavior. He is however, offering a sound psychological explanation for why otherwise intelligent people are

a) choosing to believe preposterous explanations unsupported by any credible data

b) intolerant of all explanations that oppose the official narrative, even while they are supported by mountains of highly credible data.

If you're going to attack his ideas on why he thinks this is so, read the book or at least listen to an interview. Then if you write something critical, you'll at least be criticizing what he actually put out there, not some crap you made up because you're in a bad mood or you hate psychology.

He is not saying people aren't responsible for their choices and decisions. On the contrary, he's in agreement that we as individuals are absolutely responsible for our own thinking, including the choice to let other people think for us. He, like others is also arguing that there is a massive and well executed effort to propagandize and manipulate people, to unconsciously influence their choices and decision making process. It's been going on in advertising for decades, and in countless well -documented government operations. Part of the solution according to Desmet is for those of us who are awake and aware, to stay vocal. This keeps hard core people from becoming completely comfortable with their decision to go along with the propaganda, and may succeed in bringing some others off the fence in the direction of sanity.

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